In wireshark, after capturing some arp packets, what is the significance of all 1's in the destination field. of an Ethernet II frame?
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ARP request packets are sent to the ethernet broadcast address FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF (or all 1s if you're looking at in binary). This will flood the packet throughout the network so that the correct device will hear it and respond with its IP address.
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